The world round us is continually altering, and organizations are adapting to satisfy the calls for of an more and more advanced expertise panorama. Our clients need to modernize their infrastructure, shield their organizations from cyber dangers, and unlock the ability of their information. With Cisco’s management and broad portfolio throughout Networking, Safety, Collaboration, and Observability, and the current addition of Splunk, we’re in a singular place to assist clients join and shield each side of their organizations within the period of AI.
At this time, I shared that Jonathan Davidson has made the choice to step away from his present position main Cisco Networking and can now function an advisor to me. With this, we’re bringing our Networking, Safety, and Collaboration groups collectively as one group led by Jeetu Patel as he takes on an expanded position as Cisco’s EVP and Chief Product Officer. As we transfer to finish the complete integration of Splunk into Cisco, we additionally plan to combine the Splunk product line into this new group on the proper time. This can deliver our whole product portfolio collectively as one crew.
This new group will assist us speed up our product innovation and produce our portfolio collectively in a extra built-in approach than ever earlier than. It would additionally permit us to supply a greater, unified expertise for our clients and companions, whereas delivering distinctive options to assist them obtain their expertise outcomes and drive enterprise progress.
Since becoming a member of Cisco 4 years in the past, Jeetu has led by instance along with his inventive imaginative and prescient and intense deal with innovation and swift execution. Collectively along with his crew, he has labored tirelessly to remodel and place Cisco’s Safety and Collaboration portfolios for fulfillment and progress.
Beneath Jeetu’s management, we have now seen elevated progress in Safety, and we’re delivering on a real platform strategy with Cisco Safety Cloud. Earlier this 12 months, we introduced Cisco Hypershield, probably the most consequential safety product in our 40-year historical past, to actually reimagine safety for the age of AI. Jeetu has additionally returned the collaboration enterprise to progress, and we’ve seen double-digit bookings progress in our gadgets enterprise because of AI innovation and our open technique that embraces competing conferences options available in the market. He continues to champion innovation in generative AI throughout our safety and collaboration choices, bringing differentiated capabilities to Webex and driving the imaginative and prescient for a unified AI Assistant throughout Cisco. Jeetu’s ardour, depth, sense of urgency, and fanatical deal with design and person expertise place him effectively because the chief of this newly fashioned group.
Jonathan has been pivotal to Cisco’s success throughout his mixed 22 years with the corporate. He believes deeply within the energy of connection and has demonstrated care and dedication to his groups, Cisco’s innovation and expertise, and communities across the globe via his ardour for offering digital entry for all. We’re grateful for his a few years of management.
Additional uniting our product groups is a crucial step towards unification and simplification and can in the end result in even stronger expertise outcomes for our clients and companions. Our portfolio is coming collectively in new methods to assist resolve a number of the world’s most urgent challenges. Trying forward, I’m optimistic in regards to the future and assured in Cisco’s capacity to seize the huge alternatives in entrance of us as we ship even better worth for our clients and companions.
I sit up for persevering with to companion with Jeetu on this new, expanded position, and I thank Jonathan once more for all he has completed for Cisco, our clients, and our communities.
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